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The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement.

CUP collaborates with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify complex policy and planning issues.

We believe that increasing understanding of how these systems work is the first step to better, more equitable, and more diverse community participation. ... more

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Help CUP build the democracy we need

Ten years ago, we launched our Making Policy Public program with the simple idea that good visuals and clear language could make policy more accessible to all.
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Introducing Pinned Down? Rise Up!

CUP collaborated with Community Connections for Youth, Inc. and designers Jeff Louie and Kimberly Lum to create an illustrated bilingual foldout poster that explains the PINS process and its consequences.
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CUP holiday gifts are back!

Get a head start on gift giving season and give the gift of CUP! We’re wrapping up the year with specials on our Making Policy Public and Youth Education projects!
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Check out The Bronx is Blossoming!

CUP, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society, partnered with Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas and high school students from the South Bronx to investigate who has access to nature, and who decides.
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